Energetically autonomous robots
Energetically autonomous robots
EcoBot I is a robot developed in the IAS Lab that uses Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) as the 'live engine' and glucose as the fuel. This prototype robot employs no other form of conventional power supply and it proves the concept of autonomy whilst at the same time performing photo-taxis. Recent experiments conducted in our lab, employing two different techniques, have suggested that the power output from these devices can be increased by one or even two orders of magnitude. We classify these techniques into three generations, namely Gen-I, Gen- II and Gen-III, which display different characteristics exploitable by energetically autonomous robots. This paper reports on the work to improve the performance of the EcoBot I onboard power source.
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Ieropoulos, Ioannis
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Melhuish, Chris
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Greenman, John
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30 January 2004
Ieropoulos, Ioannis
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Melhuish, Chris
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Greenman, John
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Ieropoulos, Ioannis, Melhuish, Chris and Greenman, John
(2004)
Energetically autonomous robots.
In Proceedings of the 8th Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems IAS-8.
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EcoBot I is a robot developed in the IAS Lab that uses Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) as the 'live engine' and glucose as the fuel. This prototype robot employs no other form of conventional power supply and it proves the concept of autonomy whilst at the same time performing photo-taxis. Recent experiments conducted in our lab, employing two different techniques, have suggested that the power output from these devices can be increased by one or even two orders of magnitude. We classify these techniques into three generations, namely Gen-I, Gen- II and Gen-III, which display different characteristics exploitable by energetically autonomous robots. This paper reports on the work to improve the performance of the EcoBot I onboard power source.
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Published date: 30 January 2004
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8th Intelligent Autonomous Systems Conference, , Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2004-01-30
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